SYLHET, Aug 5, 2026: Commerce, Industries, Textiles, and Jute Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir today said the country’s energy sector is facing its biggest challenge due to 17 years of mismanagement by the previous government, urging people to remain patient as the government works to stabilize the situation. Addressing a discussion and reception for the families of July martyrs and July ...

Ireland international Orla Prendergast took 4-18 as Welsh Fire beat Manchester Super Giants by three wickets at Old Trafford. Playing only her second Hundred match after arriving as an injury replacement for Sophie Devine, the seamer tore through the Super Giants’ top-order as the hosts slipped to 24-4. Prendergast bowled Super Giants captain Meg Lanning for a golden duck, had ...

Jamaat Ameer and Opposition Leader Shafiqur Rahman on Wednesday urged the countrymen to take preparations for joining another uprising which he said is likely to take place “soon” – only two years after the July movement. Addressing the government, he said the Opposition had no reason to get “impatient” had the ruling party not betrayed with the people of the ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent six leaders of Notun Dhara Bangladesh (NDB), including its Chairman Momin Mehedi and his wife and Senior Vice-Chairman Shanta Farzana, to jail in a case filed over clashes with State Dialogue Forum (SDF) a day earlier. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Kamal Uddin passed the order, said Public Prosecutor Omar Faruk Faruqui. The other accused are ...

Indian economy is set to cross $5-trillion mark in FY29 as per the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the government has adopted a broad-based growth strategy to achieve the milestone, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. As per the World Economic Outlook database (April 2026) published by the IMF, India’s GDP at current prices is ...

Former joint secretary Syed Jaglul Pasha has been arrested by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch (DB) over allegations that he fabricated documents and gave false testimony in the Zia Orphanage Trust case against former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia. DB Additional Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam confirmed the arrest on Wednesday (5 August), saying Jaglul Pasha was arrested on Tuesday ...

Five more children have died with measles symptoms in the country, taking the death toll from suspected cases to 758. Additionally, 96 children have died from confirmed measles infections, which brings the total death toll to 854. The Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) disclosed this information in a press release ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Wednesday said the July-August Movement became successful because the people wanted change, asserting that its success belonged to the country’s people rather than any individual or political party. “The movement that took place in Bangladesh during July and August was entirely a people’s movement. The July Movement succeeded because the people wanted change. The movement ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Thursday toured the newly inaugurated July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum, viewing exhibits depicting the events leading up to the July 2024 mass uprising and what organisers described as the 16 years of “authoritarian rule” under former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Former interim government Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus accompanied the Prime Minister during the visit. ...

Today (5 August) marks two years since the July Mass Uprising, a defining moment in Bangladesh’s contemporary history. What began as a movement against perceived discrimination in the government job quota system soon grew into a nationwide demand for accountability, justice and democratic governance. The subsequent fall of the Sheikh Hasina government ended more than 15 years of uninterrupted rule ...